Abstract

This chapter focuses on the process that the Security Council undertook in order to use the notion “protection of civilians. It questions whether it was legitimate of the Security Council to treat the National Transitional Council (NTC) as a civilian group rather than an armed opposition group. The chapter discusses the issue of the Security Council’s Global Governance and studies the question of legitimacy as a political concept, distinguished from the principle of legality. It establishes the criteria for qualifying the need for protecting civilians. The chapter studies the requirements for qualifying the Libyan situation as an internal armed conflict. It targets the definition of “civilians” and “armed opposition group, which raises the importance of ensuring the accountability of the NTC. The chapter explores the option that the Security Council had of engaging in a pro-democratic intervention and explicitly taking the side of the NTC. Keywords:armed opposition group; civilians; National Transitional Council (NTC); security council resolution

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